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This is | This alphabetical list of some of the '''more common nonbinary identities''' gives names of many kinds of [[gender identity|gender identities]] that are [[nonbinary]]. That is, those other than just [[female]] and [[male]], which are the [[binary gender]]s. This list gives names for nonbinary identities in English-speaking cultures, as well as [[gender-variant identities worldwide|those that are part of other cultures]]. (For the latter, please never use a word for your gender that belongs only to a culture or ethnic group that is not yours.) Some of these words for nonbinary genders have been used in writing for thousands of years. Meanwhile, some of these words were created last year. This page lists fewer of the older gender-variant identities than the new ones, because it can be harder to say whether it's accurate to put those in the category of "nonbinary." | ||
there are only 2 genders. | '''Note to editors:''' Identities added to this list must demonstrate notability and cite sources (telling who coined them, when, and showing that they're in use by people), or else the entry will be deleted. | ||
==A== | |||
[[File:Angel Haze live at Øyafestivalen 2013.jpg|thumb|Shown here live at Øyafestivalen 2013, [[Nonbinary celebrities#Raeen Roes (Angel Haze)|Raeen Roes]], better known by their stage name Angel Haze, is a well known agender rapper, as they announced via twitter in February 2015.]] | |||
* '''[[agender]]'''. 1. Some who call themselves agender have no gender identity (genderless). 2. Some who call themselves agender have a gender identity, which isn't female or male, but neutral.<ref name=NBGQ2016>[http://nonbinarystats.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results], March 2016.</ref> | |||
* '''agenderflux.''' Coined by perfectlybrokenbones in 2014. "Where you identify as agender but have fluctuations where you feel feminine or masculine but not male or female".<ref name=NBGQ2016>[http://nonbinarystats.tumblr.com/post/141311159050/nbgq-survey-2016-the-worldwide-results NB/GQ Survey 2016 - the worldwide results], March 2016.</ref> | |||
* '''[[androgyne]]'''. This word is used for a wide variety of [[gender nonconforming]] and non-binary gender identities and gender expressions.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> | |||
* '''[[aporagender]]'''. Coined in 2014, from Greek ''apo, apor'' "separate" + "gender".<ref>[http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88346079784/could-i-ask-the-etymology-of-the-prefix-apora Anonymous asked: "could I ask the etymology of the prefix apora- ?"], posted October 2014.</ref> A [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity]] and [[umbrella term]] for "a gender separate from [[male]], [[female]], and anything in between while still having a very strong and specific gendered feeling" (that is, not an [[agender|absence of gender]]).<ref>[http://aporagender.tumblr.com/aporagender Aporagender], date unknown, captured April 2016.</ref><ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> | |||
* '''ashtime'''. In Ethiopia, the Maale people had a gender role called Ashtime, for [[AMAB|assigned-male-at-birth (AMAB)]] eunuchs who live as women, though later this became an umbrella term for all kinds of gender non-conforming AMAB people.<ref>Epprecht, Marc. Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS, p.61-62</ref> | |||
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==B== | |||
[[File:Sworn virgin in Rapsha, Albania.gif|thumb|Sworn virgin in Rapsha, Hoti, Ottoman Albania, at the beginning of the 20th century.]] | |||
* '''berdache'''. An old word used by European-American anthropologists as an umbrella term for nonbinary gender roles in Native American cultures. The term was replaced by [[Two-Spirit]] in 1990 at an Indigenous lesbian and gay international gathering.<ref name=NativeOut101>"[http://nativeout.com/twospirit-rc/two-spirit-101/ Two Spirit 101]" at ''NativeOut'': "The Two Spirit term was adopted in 1990 at an Indigenous lesbian and gay international gathering to encourage the replacement of the term berdache, which means, 'passive partner in sodomy, boy prostitute.'" Accessed 23 Sep 2015</ref> Some Native American people can reclaim the word "berdache" for themselves, but it shouldn't be used by people who aren't Native. | |||
* '''bi-gender, [[bigender]]'''.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> Bigender individuals have two gender identities, at the same time, or at different times.<ref>Schneider, M., et al, American Psychological Association, ''APA Task Force on Gender Identity, Gender Variance, and Intersex Conditions'', 2008 [http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.pdf Answers to Your Questions ABOUT TRANSGENDER PEOPLE, GENDER IDENTITY, AND GENDER EXPRESSION] (PDF), date unknown, captured April 2016.</ref> These two genders might be female and male, or they might be a different pair of genders. | |||
* '''[[burrnesha]]'''. In Albania, the Burrnesha, "sworn virgins," are people [[AFAB|assigned female at birth]] who have a masculine gender expression and role. This tradition goes back to at least the 1400s, and is still practiced.<ref name="IanW">Whitaker, (1984) p. 146</ref><ref name="Csex&Bgen">Shaw (2005) p. 74</ref> | |||
* '''[[butch]]'''.<ref name=NBGQ2016></ref> A queer masculine gender identity or expression, which some see as a nonbinary gender. | |||
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==D== | |||
* '''[[demiboy]]'''. A gender identity that is male-like, or both male and genderless.<ref name"asexualityorgpromasterlist">[http://asexualityorg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gender&action=print&thread=9 Definitions Master List], asexualityorg proboards, posted August 2012, captured April 2016.</ref><ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> | |||
* '''[[demigender]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> An umbrella term for nonbinary gender identities that have a partial connection to a certain gender. | |||
* '''[[demigirl]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A gender identity that is female-like, or both female and genderless.<ref>[http://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/55798-definitions-master-list/ AVEN: Definitions Master List]</ref> | |||
==E== | |||
* '''enby'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Created in 2013 by a non-binary person named vector (revolutionator).<ref>vector (revolutionator). ''[http://revolutionator.tumblr.com/post/60853952929/i-wish-there-was-an-nb-equivalent-to-words-like Untitled post]'', September 2013. revolutionator's blog is password-protected, but the post has been reblogged many times, eg: [http://adventuresingender.tumblr.com/post/60940278905/revolutionator-i-wish-there-was-an-nb here], date unknown, captured April 2016.</ref> Based on an initialism of "non-binary," "NB". A common noun for a person with a non-binary gender identity. This is the nonbinary gender equivalent of the common nouns "boy" or "girl." Plural: enbies. | |||
==F== | |||
* '''[[fa'afafine]]'''. In Samoa, the Fa'afafine are people [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]] who have a feminine gender expression, and who don't think of themselves as female or male.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26089486 "The evolutionary puzzle of homosexuality", BBC News], Feb 2014.</ref> | |||
* '''[[femme]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A [[queer]] [[gender expression#feminine|feminine]] gender, which some use as a nonbinary identity. | |||
* '''FTX'''. Female-to-X, covering people who were assigned female at birth, and who identify as nonbinary or X-gender.<ref name="roxiejapan">[http://genderqueerid.com/post/46526429887/selected-links-on-non-binary-gender-in-japan ''Selected links on nonbinary gender in Japan''], Marilyn Roxie, March 28, 2013.</ref> | |||
==G== | |||
[[File:Anjali gopalan.jpg|thumb|Asia's first gender queer pride parade in Madurai, 2012.]] | |||
* '''[[gallae]]'''. Originating in Turkey, and spreading to Europe, many of the ancient priestesses of the goddess Cybele were Gallae. The Gallae were eunuchs who were analogous to [[transgender women]]. Some see them as a nonbinary gender role. Today, some worshipers of Cybele call themselves Gallae. One of their temples is [http://gallae.com in New York]. | |||
* '''[[genderfluid]]''', or gender-fluid.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A gender identity that often changes, so that a person may feel one day like a boy, and another day like a girl. Fluid gender. | |||
* '''[[genderflux]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Coined by deergoths in 2014. "Genderflux means that your internal sense of how gendered you are varies over time. One day, you might feel really gendered, and the next day, you might have a very weak feeling of gender, or not feel like any gender at all. Whereas genderfluidity is a shift between different genders, genderflux is more like varying intensity." A gender identity that often changes in intensity, so that a person may feel one day as though they have almost no gender, or none at all, and another day they feel very gendered. | |||
* '''genderless.'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Having no gender identity. Syn. [[Agender|agender]]. | |||
* '''gender neutral'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> 1. That which has nothing to do with gender. 2. Having no gender identity; [[agender]]. 3. Having a gender identity that is neutral: not female, not male, not a mix. [[Neutrois]]. | |||
* '''[[genderqueer]]'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> is a non-normative gender identity or [[gender expression|expression]]. This can be an umbrella term, or a specific identity. | |||
* '''gendervoid'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Coined by Baaphomett in 2014. "A gender consisting of the void (also/originally used to mean the same thing as genderless)." | |||
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==H== | |||
[[File:Hijra Protest Islamabad.jpg|thumb|A Pakistani hijra at a protest between two hijra groups from Islamabad and Rawalpindi. 2008.]] | |||
* '''[[hijra]]'''. In south Asian countries including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the Hijra are people [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]] who have a feminine gender expression. This is a very ancient tradition. Today, Hijra are legally recognized as a gender other than female or male.<ref>Reddy, Gayatri, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, 310 pp., University of Chicago Press, 2005 ISBN 0-226-70755-5 (see p. 8)</ref><ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/india.gender.voting/index.html, "India's third gender gets own identity in voter rolls", Harmeet Shah Singh, CNN.com], Nov. 2009 </ref><ref>Mitch Kellaway. "Trans Indian's Predicament at Border Shows the U.S. Lags Behind." May 9, 2015. Advocate. http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/05/09/trans-indian-womans-predicament-border-shows-us-lags-behind</ref><ref>[http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/25/pakistan-recognizes-third-gender/ "Pakistan Recognizes Third Gender", Ria Misra, Politics Daily], Dec. 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2013/nov/11/hijras-now-separate-gender, "Hijras now a separate gender", Mohosinul Karim, Dhaka Tribune], Nov. 2013 </ref><ref>http://www.attn.com/stories/868/transgender-passport-status</ref> | |||
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==I== | |||
* '''[[intergender]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Coined in the 1990s or earlier. A certain nonbinary gender identity in between female and male. In the 1990s, this was an identity label that any person could use, even if they were born with non-intersex (dyadic) bodies,<ref>Donna Lynn Matthews, “What is intergendered?” 1998-10. http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/intergen.html</ref> but others say it should only be used by people who were born with intersex bodies. | |||
== J == | |||
* '''juxera'''.<ref name="Proxvir and Juxera">[http://wulfgendur.tumblr.com/post/90527821124/hello-friends-here-are-some-new-gender-terms]</ref> "a gender relative to female, but is something separate and entirely on it’s own." Coined 2014 by tumblr user ren, along with '''proxvir'''. Intended for use as an adjective, not a noun.<ref name="proxvir and juxera 2">[http://wulfgendur.tumblr.com/post/164348851324/how-do-you-pronounce-juxera-and-proxvir-and]</ref> | |||
==M== | |||
* '''[[Māhū]]'''. In Hawaii, in the Kanaka Maoli society, the Māhū is a nonbinary gender role, made of people who can be either AFAB or AMAB. This tradition existed before Western invaders, and survives today.<ref>''[http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/men-women-pacific The men-women of the Pacific]'', tate.org.uk/Tate Britain, [http://www.webcitation.org/6WpIsllud archive URL] 6 March 2015.</ref> | |||
* '''[[maverique]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Coined by Vesper H. (queerascat) in 2014. A specific nonbinary gender identity "characterized by autonomy and inner conviction regarding a sense of self that is entirely independent of male/masculinity, female/femininity or anything which derives from the two while still being neither without gender nor of a neutral gender."<ref>''[http://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/89448452041/maverique-definition-reworded-06-21-14-a maverique]'', Vesper H. (queerascat), June 2014, captured April 2016.</ref> | |||
* '''MTX'''. Male-to-X, covering people who were assigned male at birth, and who identify as nonbinary or X-gender.<ref name="roxiejapan"></ref> | |||
==N== | |||
* '''[[neutrois]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Coined by a neutrois person named H. A. Burnham in 1995.<ref>Axey, Qwill, Rave, and Luscious Daniel, eds. “FAQ.” Neutrois Outpost. Last updated 2000-11-23. Retrieved 2001-03-07. [http://web.archive.org/web/20010307115554/http://www.neutrois.com/faq.htm]</ref> Having one non-binary gender identity that is neutral. Not female, not male, and not a mix. Some neutrois people are transsexual, experience gender dysphoria, and want to get a physical transition.<ref>''[http://neutrois.me/neutrois Define]'', Neutrois Nonsense, date unknown, captured April 2016.</ref> | |||
* '''ninauposkitzipxpe'''. In North America, the Blackfoot Confederacy recognizes a gender called ''ninauposkitzipxpe'', "manly-hearted women," who are [[AFAB|assigned female at birth]], and occupy a gender role different from that of women and men.<ref>''[https://prezi.com/izm-k5qn6tjc/gender-identity-and-historical-context-in-native-cultures/ Gender Identity and Historical Context in Native Cultures]'' by Emily Zogbi on 15 December 2014.</ref> | |||
* '''[[nonbinary]]'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> is an umbrella term for all who don't identify as just female or male. Though there are many kinds of nonbinary gender identities, some people identify as "nonbinary" only. | |||
==P== | |||
* '''[[polygender]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> Having several gender identities, particularly four or more of them. This can mean at different times, or at the same time. | |||
* '''proxvir'''.<ref name="Proxvir and Juxera"></ref> "a gender relative to male, but is something separate and entirely on it’s own." Coined 2014 by tumblr user ren, who felt he no longer identified with "demiboy" because of that word's focus on "boy" and implication of a split/mixed gender. Intended as an adjective.<ref name="proxvir and juxera 2">[http://wulfgendur.tumblr.com/post/164348851324/how-do-you-pronounce-juxera-and-proxvir-and]</ref> | |||
==Q== | |||
* '''[[quariwarmi]]'''. In Peru, the pre-colonial Incas recognized ''quariwarmi'', a nonbinary mixed-gender role.<ref>Horswell, Michael J. (2006). ''Transculturating Tropes of Sexuality, ''Tinkuy'', and Third Gender in the Andes'', introduction to "Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture". ISBN 0-292-71267-7. [http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exhordec.html Article online].</ref> | |||
* '''[[queer]]'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A reclaimed slur for the LGBT+ community, and an umbrella term for identities that are not heterosexual and/or not cisgender. Some people use this as the name for their nonbinary gender identity. | |||
==S== | |||
* '''sekhet'''. In ancient Egypt (Middle Kingdom, 2000-1800 BCE), there were said to be three genders of humans: men, ''sekhet'', and women, in that order. Sekhet is usually translated as "eunuch," but that's probably an oversimplification of what this gender category means. It may also mean cisgender gay men, in the sense of not having children, and not necessarily someone who was castrated.<ref>''[http://www.gendertree.com/Egyptian%20third%20gender.htm Egyptian Third Gender]'', gendertree.com, last modified December 2013, captured April 2016.</ref> | |||
==T== | |||
[[File:SF Pride 2014 - Stierch 3.jpg|thumb|Two-spirited pride marchers at San Francisco Pride 2014.]] | |||
* '''trans feminine'''.<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> A transgender person who transitions in a feminine direction, but who doesn't necessarily identify as female. They may have a non-binary gender identity. | |||
* '''[[transgender]]'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> is an umbrella term for all genders that go beyond society’s ideas of gender, which includes some kinds of binary gender people. Some call their gender identity simply "transgender," as a nonbinary identity itself. | |||
* '''[[Two-spirit]]'''. Hundreds of cultures throughout North and South America have long had gender roles for those other than cisgender women and cisgender men. Internationally, "Two-spirit" is the agreed-upon modern English umbrella term for these gay, transgender, and nonbinary gender roles.<ref>Eve Shapiro, ''Gender circuits: Bodies and identities in a technological age.'' Unpaged.</ref> | |||
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==V== | |||
* '''[[neurogender#vaguegender|vaguegender]], or gendervague'''<ref name="NBGQ2016"></ref> (coined by neurodivergentkin and strangledlove)<ref>[http://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/91654136619/strangegloved-ok-so-the-rly-cool-people-at-the Untitled post], reblogged by Queer As Cat, July 2014, captured April 2016.</ref> is defined as a gender identity that is highly influenced by being neurodivergent, and feels undefinable or partly definable because of one’s neurodivergence. Specific kinds of vaguegender include vagueflux, vagueboy, and vaguegirl. | |||
==X== | |||
* '''[[X-gender]] (Xジェンダー)'''. In Japan, this is a common transgender identity that isn't female or male.<ref name="roxiejapan"></ref> | |||
* '''XTX'''. A nonbinary, neutral, and/or x-gender counterpart to FTM (female-to-male) and MTF (male-to-female).<ref name="roxiejapan"></ref> | |||
==Y== | |||
[[File:Jia Baoyu Hongloumeng Tuyong.jpg|thumb|Jia Baoyu, the main character of the 18th century novel, ''The Dream of the Red Chamber''. He is described as a ''yinyang ren'', and is based on the novel's author.]] | |||
* '''[[yinyang ren]] (陰陽人)'''. In China, yinyang ren are people who have an equal amount of both feminine (yin) and masculine (yang) qualities. Usually this means gender nonconforming and bisexual, but can also mean transgender or intersex. | |||
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==See also== | |||
*[[List of poorly-attested nonbinary identities]] | |||
*[[:Category:Glossaries of gender and sex terminology|Glossaries of gender and sex terminology in {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Glossaries of gender and sex terminology}} different languages]] | |||
==References== | |||
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